Juho Aukusti Hollo was professor at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...

 from 1930 to 1954.

He was one of the most prolific translators into Finnish, translating a range of genres and from several languages. He himself said in 1953 that he had translated 170 books; some sources list over 300. He was also an essayist.

He worked as a teacher from 1908 to 1919. In 1920 he became docent at the University of Helsinki, but then spent five years in Leipzig

Leipzig

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 and Vienna

Vienna

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. He returned to Helsinki in 1930, and from 1950 to 1954 was the chancellor of Yhteiskunnallinen koskeakoulu (Institute of the Social Sciences).

His son is the poet Anselm Hollo

Anselm Hollo

Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo is a Finnish poet and translator. He has lived in the United States since 1967.-Life and work:...

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